Tag: defensible spaces
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I missed the best part.
The remarkably realistic comment by the Harris Poll included a quote from Ice T. I was enamored of ‘analog people’ and didn’t notice the POWER of Ice T’s suggestion. It would [be] kinda dope if Musk bought Twitter and just shut it off. It’s powerful because shutting off is THE NORMAL PURPOSE of buying a…
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Gets it
The Enid Buzz fb page asked who had CB radios. Here’s a reply that GETS IT: The FCC did regulate CB indirectly. CB radios had to be prepackaged. The manufacturers had to keep the power below 5 watts ‘gross’, and had to maintain accurate frequency. Homebrewers who built 1 kilowatt amplifiers got caught pretty quickly.…
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Should have stuck with SW
Still on info input and output…. Censorship is all about info inputs, and the criterion is caste, not content. Correct Persons are allowed to insert their info into the closed-circuit web. Incorrect Persons are not allowed to input. We’ve been conditioned to assume that Twitter and Google and Apple are the ONLY channels. Simply and…
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Statusotopic mapping?
If we start from my unconventional thought that secrecy is the default, what happens? If we treat this as the baseline assumption, what about “innovation” and “robust debate”? First some clarification. I’m talking about secrecy and language within a family or tribe or guild, not secrecy between all individuals. Language forms the circle and keeps…
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Revising a conventional guess
In previous item about a strangely primitive tube-based spy rig, I casually dismissed transistors as not ready for prime time. That was true in the early ’50s, but Russian equipment famously stuck with tubes long after transistors were generally reliable and consistent. Sputnik used submini tubes while our satellites used transistors. Sputnik got there first,…
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Reprint on the uses of expertise
I’ve reprinted this list many times in various contexts with various additions. Feels like a good time to reprint it again, connecting it to my recent language-based comparison of facts vs commands, and this week’s UFO obsession. This version of the list is from 2017, with a good discussion of factual experts vs commanding experts.…
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Probably not an April Fool
Apparently this isn’t an April Fool. It should be. “Scientists” are trying yet again to communicate with Autistic Messiah Aliens, using really stupid NFT-style images. The new spacebound note, named the Beacon in the Galaxy (BITG), is the latest in a series of attempts to contact other lifeforms in the universe that date back to…
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Zenith
I haven’t made any new graphics in MANY months. I used up my graphics gumption during 2020, in a frantic outpouring of science as entertainment to counterbalance the Nazi torturers misusing “science” as a god of genocide. During most of 2021 I was just weary, bombarded with especially awful weather along with the torture. 2022…
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Reprint from 2018
Especially germane on the subject of protests, media insanity, etc. = = = = = START REPRINT: Want to break the “cycle of violence”? Break the media. The press has been running this routine for at least a hundred years. It’s not mysterious or “unintended”. It’s an intrinsic part of their business model. Blood sells…
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The tired old Klaatu story
Via MindMatters, NASA is studying how to use “aliens” to replace religion with science. This replacement has been a constant theme of Deepstate-loving scifi writers. Alien Avenging Angels descend to Earth and cleanse it of redneck crackers and holy rollers, leaving only the Official Doctors And Scientists alive and in charge. The only problem with…
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Defensible Spaces review 1/6
Unlike the other reviews I’ve been doing this year, the Defensible Spaces theme started with a general feeling, not with a specific piece of science or a specific input. Later a smart scientific idea fertilized the theme. The first exposition of the theme in July 2015: Dreher is hitting his Benedict Option theme again. Stand…
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Defensible Spaces review 2/6
The digital world is built on gang-style traps. After you join Facebook, you’re never out. Every subscription starts as free and then turns into a lifetime obligation. Every program “phones home” and forces daily “updates” to maintain maximum vulnerability and control. (Firefox popped up an update alert as I was typing the previous sentence!) You…
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Defensible Spaces review 3/6
The magnificent Del Giudice idea entered the theme of Defensible Spaces in 2019. Via Phys.org, a genuinely fresh and PRODUCTIVE idea that sounds silly at first glance. Del Giudice doesn’t claim this is a theory, just an open question to spawn new ways of looking: Did the brain develop ‘software’ defenses against behavior-controlling parasites? Many…
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Defensible Spaces review 4/6
How about defensible times? From 2019 again: Roger Scruton’s latest article includes this evocative sentence; At first, I thought that the placeless character of modern housing is a matter of style—the modern materials and proportions, the grammarless disposition of windows and doors, the random orientation along cul-de-sacs that join nothing to nothing. But it soon…
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Defensible Spaces review 5/6
I revisited the Del Giudice theme in April 2020 at the start of the full state of siege, but before ballgags were required. = = = = = Other commentators have been noticing lots of intense dreams during this insane period of total satanic control. They attribute it to the isolation. I’ve also been having…
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